Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Hyper-V
Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V is a great technical whitepaper available to download from the Microsoft site.
Brief Description
The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance and best practices for deploying Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 in a virtualized environment with Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper V™ technology. This paper has been carefully composed to be relevant to organizations of any size.
Overview
Many organizations today rely on some degree of virtualization. Whether it is a few virtual machines running on a single physical computer or a whole server farm across multiple root servers, virtualization optimizes investment in hardware and network infrastructure by:
- Increasing the utilization of underused hardware.
- Improving server availability.
- Reducing IT costs.
The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance and best practices for deploying Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 in a virtualized environment with Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper V™ technology. This paper has been carefully composed to be relevant to organizations of any size.